GRE Word List
RIDDLE
a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum
The meaning of the word riddle is a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| eccentricity | the quality or state of being eccentric |
| expound | to set forth : state |
| demerit | offense |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |
| demean | to lower in character, status, or reputation |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| inerrancy | exemption from error : infallibility |
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |